I reported a defect in the port's BLOCKED.md that had been struck and corrected for
days, and whose correction already contained the diagnosis I thought I had found
independently. I was reading my working tree's copy, last touched 2026-08-29 and
234 commits behind, while their live file sits on auto/port-p6-audio -- a ref
already fetched in this checkout and readable with one git show.
The exact mirror of the gap I had been reporting about them. They read main's stale
HANDOFF while mine was on my branch; I diagnosed that as needing a human merge, then
made the same error in the other direction with the fix one command away. They had
already been reading my branch directly, citing my commits by sha. I had not been
reading theirs.
So the shared-state problem is two gaps, not one, and only the second needs a merge:
what a peer HOLDS is readable now from any topic branch; what a peer must be TOLD
still needs main.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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